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Chromite from
Beach cliffs, San Simeon, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Comments:found as micro octahedral crystals and grains throughout serpentine country rock
Habit:octahedron's and grains
Colour:black
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified, Optical Analysis
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beach cliffs, San Simeon, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:775546
Long-form Identifier:1:3:775546:0
GUID (UUID V4):d8de8f7e-f5d4-42ac-9778-5e47d14bd500
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j3 ROADSIDE EOLOGY of Northern and Central California David Alt and Donald W. Hyndman Mountain Press...David D. Roadside geology of Northern and Central California / David Alt and Donald W. Hyndman. p. cm. - (Roadside...0-87842-409-1 (alk. paper) 1. Geology-California-Guidebooks. 2. California-Guidebooks. I. Hyndman, Donald W...Leggett Coast Range ,.~ Reno 1 Calpella Lake Ta hoe Point Yosemit Nation Basin and Range San Francisco...Bakersfield • San Luis Obispo Roads and Sections of Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California. Contents
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Gneissic Rocks Near The San Andreas Fault From Bodega Head to Cajon Pass, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...Gneissic Rocks Near The San Andreas Fault From Bodega Head to Cajon Pass, California By DONALD C. ROSS GEOLOGICAL...rocks in isolated fault slivers between the Gabilan Range and Gold Hill_________ Granitic rocks of Stockdale...Range_________________________________ Quartz monzonite of San Juan Creek._________ Page 1 1 3 4 4 7 7 8 8 8 8...and Gold Hill _____ Basement rocks of the Santa Lucia Range ______ Petrographic and structural summary
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Geology in Canada: Hume, G. S., Gunning, H. G., 5. California, southern, pegmatites: 3. Arciniega, V. M. Geology...Hershey, H. G. , 2. scale: Spieker, E. M., 3. Iron-range rocks, origin: Tanton, Distribution in geologic...Science and hobby: Meen, V. B. , 1. Pegmatites, California, southern: Mineralogy and the field geologist...Schultz, P. R. Thrust faulting, mechanisms, Rocky Mts., discovery challenge: theories: Longwell, C. R....Gravenor, Cuebec, St. Lawrence Lowlands, C. P., 15. California, Barstow quadrangle: Trenton group, Ordovician:
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complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales John Wakabayashi...and Environmental Sciences, California State University, Fresno, CA, USA Published online: 03 Feb 2015...complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales, International...complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales John Wakabayashi*...and Environmental Sciences, California State University, Fresno, CA, USA Downloaded by [ECU Libraries]
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES LIBRARY >ologic in San Fra to Northerij^aJ^L to the Sierra Nevada Special Publication...the Seismological Society of America, San Francisco, California, March 1991. This guidebook is available...NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada Editors DORIS SLOAN University of California, Berkeley...and DAVID L. WAGNER Division of Mines and California Department Geology of Conservation OF MINES...C\j IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Geological Setting of the San Francisco Bay Area. \2j San Francisco to Point
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"Names and Definitions of the Geological Units of California," Bulletin 826, by M. Grace Wilmarth. This work...reference for geologists who worked exclusively in California. The first exhaustive con1pilation, M. Grace...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian
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ernary geology ----------------------Basin and Range region ----------------------Mineral resource studies...----Arizona ---------------------------------California ------------------------------Nevada -------...onnecticut Valley, urban area project __ Front Range urban corridor, Colorado __ Baltimore-Washington...l cooperators --------------------------State, county, and local cooperators -----------Other cooperators...and tectonic features, central Sierra Nevada, California F. C. W. Dodge reports that the distribution
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Roseburg - California Line ..................................... 27 U.S. 101: Port Orford - California Line.................... 33 U.S. 199: Grants Pass - California Line ..................................... 38.................................. 4 7 THE COAST RANGE AND WILLAMETTE VALLEY .................. 54 Interstate...................... 219 U.S. 97: Oregon 58 - California Line ................................................................ 233 U.S. 395: Burns - California Line .......................................
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Environmental Sciences California State University, Fresno Fresno, California 93740 USA Yildirim Dilek Department...45056 USA Special Paper 480 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2011...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. GSA provides this and other forums for the presentation...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA www.geosociety.org Printed in U.S.A. GSA Books Science...Complex exposed in a sea cliff in the San Simeon area, central California coast. Vertical dimension of view
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•■_ j DO NOT REMOVE CARDS FROM POCKET ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 46802 You may... or bookmobile of the Allen County Public Library. DEMCO ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY iRB 1833 01629...and the Whitby Museum. Ken Sedman of Cleveland County Leisure Services Geology Department provided many...Cataloging-in-Publication Information is available Allen County Public Library Ft. Wayne, Indiana 10 987654321...only where favourable strata occur. The geological range of each genus is given with each description. Microfossils
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Location description and accuracy: This site is on the beach near the workings of the Amok Gold Mining Company...site an auriferous quartz vein crops out on the beach near the Amok Gold Mine workings. A Mr. Wanberg...Resource Data File KD008 Site name(s): Miners Point Beach Site type: Mine ARDFno.: KD008 Latitude: 57.89 ...description and accuracy: This site is a 1 1/2-mile long beach located south and southeast of Miners Point (Cobb...Gangue minerals: Geologic description: This is a beach gold placer which was mined prior to 1935 (Capps
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the west margin of intrusive rocks of the Coast Range complex in the vicinity of Sitklan Passage near...synkinematic with the late stages of the Coast Range orogeny in the Ketchikan area. Mica of commercial...(1942, p. 174-178) discuss the geology of the chromite deposits at Red Bluff Bay, on the east coast of...pegmatite (?) dikes were seen from the air along the beach cliffs between Redfish Bay and Byron Bay. This area...sands along the west coast of Kanagunut Island are beach placers derived from the schist. Thin, persistent
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reserved. , - IEarrt Snake River, the Teton Range, Wyoming. [Phom by Ansel Adams.) Frank Press ...HARVARD UNIVERSITY [E W. H. Freeman and Company San Francisco A Series of Books in Geology EDITORS:...theory are djscussed with reference co che entire range of geological subjects considered in the book. The...Technology), R onald L. Shreve (Un iversity of California, Los Angeles), J ohn B. Southard ( 1vfassachuseccs...Scace College), Shawn Biehler (University of California, Riverside), Ruch B. Boeckerman ( Fullerton Junior
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manganese deposits. Abundant at Butte, Montana, USA, Rhodochrosite carvings and other localities, rhodochrosite...400°F/200°C). Layered rocks in the San Juan River Erosion at this canyon in Utah, USA, has exposed layers of shale...azurite is always azure blue. YELLOW FLUORITE Color range These specimens show only a few of the many colors...layers of sedimentary rock in the Grand Canyon, USA. The highest layers are the youngest, while the deepest...crystallization and more interesting crystal forms. A wide range of specimens can be purchased from dealers, but
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400°F/200°C). Layered rocks in the San Juan River Erosion at this canyon in Utah, USA, has exposed layers of shale...azurite is always azure blue. YELLOW FLUORITE Color range These specimens stidw only a few of the many colors...layers of sedimentary rock in the Grand Canyon, USA. The highest layers are the youngest, while the deepest...crystallization and more nteresting crystal forms. A wide range of specimens can be purchased from dealers, but...collecting sites, such as road cuttings and eroded cliffs on shorelines, continue to provide excellent opportunities
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theory are discussed with refer¬ ence to the entire range of geologic subjects consid¬ ered in the book. The...these we are especially grateful to Don Anderson (California Institute of Technology); Richard L. Armstrong...Scharnberger (Millersville University); Ralph Gram (California State Univer¬ sity); William C. Beard (Cleveland...(Northern Arizona Univer¬ sity); Donald MacKenzie (California State Univer¬ sity); Karen Crowder (University...(SUNY Col¬ lege at Purchase); D. S. Burnett (California Insti¬ tute of Technology); Michael A. Ellis
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at Unst in the north of Shetland has layers of chromite that were formerly mined. Igneous rocks of several...examples. The Caithness Flagstones forming the cliffs and sea stacks at Duncansby Head near John o’Groats...Ca, Caribbean; Ph, Philippine; A, Arabian. SAF, San Andreas fault. Iceland o 20o F SA 40 A Ph ...constantly attacking the coast and wearing away the cliffs. Chemical weathering and physical erosion continue...ball concretions; the large round boulder on the beach is a concretion weathered out of the cliff face;
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University of Vermont; Jeffrey Mount, University of California—Davis; and William N. Orr, University of Oregon...Deposits, 409 Ancient Deltaic Systems, 414 12.3 Beach and Barrier-Island Systems 415 Introduction, 415...Depositional Processes on Beaches, 418 Characteristics of Beach and Barrier-Island Deposits, 422 Transgressive and...and Regressive Barrier Sequences, 426 Beach and BarrierIsland Deposits in the Geologic Record, 428 12...stratigraphic ranges of these organisms. Stratigraphic range is the stratigraphic interval between the first
Report (edition)
Geo (B890) .. Plate VI A. Jurassic strata in beach, faulted down against Old Red Sand¬ stone in cliff...(C1284). B Raised Beaches. 100-ft beach, and cliff and platform of 25-ft beach. Hilton of Cadboll, Ross-shire...the influence of the geological structure. The county of Caithness is mainly a smooth low tableland built...gneiss, and towards the south descend in precipitous cliffs to the sea. Eastward, Cambrian quartzite forms...dislocation which reaches the sea at the red granite cliffs north of Helmsdale. Caithness, inland a dreary
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the special Water Supply memojrs which deal with county areas and not with the individual geological Sheets...practically every undergrou11d water supply in that county. In these and other cases advantage has been taken...:Solid • Drift - - • - SIX-INCHES TO THE MILE (COUNTY ) MAPS :- · - ··· 82 904 76 40 103 2 168 ...they occur in the · Old Lawre11ce Roel{, consist of san(ly shale. In the north, tl1e Old La,vrence Rock is...localities. POST-GLACIAL AND RECE�T ·Raised Beach.-The raised beach has been t.raced from a point a little
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Institute of America 1660 Stewart Street Santa Monica, California 90404 ISBN Number 0-87311-010-2 Printed...Consulting Oceanographic Engineer, Pasadena, California; Mr N. W. Wilson M.B.E., A.R.S.M., one-time Assistant...the space and time gap between South Africa and California. A. N. Wilson Johannesburg June 1981 XXV ...dedicated individuals involved with production in California. These include: Lori E. Brown, Paul H. Kovelman...continents "drift”. Those who live and work in California are continually reminded of continental movement
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Colorado-- Federal Center, Bldg. 810 MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3,Rm. 3128, 345Middlefield Rd. RESTON...Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St...of the Mount McKinley area in the central Alaska Range based on fission-track dating 202 George Plafker...Survey MS-904 345 Middlefield Road Menlo Park, California 94025 Brew, David A. Drinkwater, james L. Dusei-Bacon...the entire State from the North Slope and Brooks Range to interior, western, southwestern, southcentral
 
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